1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 9, 12:00 PM AST, 6 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHWEST ALASKA 100 PM ADT THU SEP 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... ON THE SURFACE...THE EX-TYPHOON IS MOVING OFF THE KAMCHATKAN PENINSULA THIS MORNING WITH A FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS. SO FAR VERY LITTLE WIND WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE NOTED IN THE FAR WEST. A WEAK LOW IS DISSIPATING QUICKLY OVER THE PRIBILOFS THIS MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC AND GULF OF ALASKA. OVER THE INTERIOR OF ALASKA WEAK BROAD TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE EXISTS. UPPER LEVELS...A STRONG UPPER LOW EXISTS JUST TO THE NORTH OF PRUDHOE BAY WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING BACK INTO THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST. WEAK RIDGING CONTINUES IN THE UPPER LEVELS OVER THE INTERIOR OF ALASKA. IN THE WEST A FILLING UPPER LOW IS LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN BERING SEA WITH THE EX-TYPHOON OVER THE KAMCHATKAN PENINSULA. STRONG ZONAL FLOW EXISTS OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC FROM THE NORTHERN ISLANDS OF JAPAN INTO THE BC COAST. MODELS...THE MODELS ALL HANDLED THE 00HR SURFACE PANEL IN SIMILAR FASHION WITH THE UKMET HAVING THE OVER ALL BEST HANDLE. UPPER LEVELS THE UKMET HAS THE BEST START ON THE UPPER LEVELS AND HAS THE UPPER LOW WITH THE EX-TYPHOON BETTER POSITIONED THAN THE NCEP BASED MODELS AT 18Z. THROUGH THE FIRST 84 HOURS THE BIG FOUR ETA/GFS/UKMET/ECMWF ARE HANDLING THINGS IN A VERY SIMILAR FASHION ON THE SYNOPTIC SCALE. IN THE DETAILS THE ETA BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS ARE A BIT STRONGER THAN THE REMAINDER OF THE MODELS...AGAIN THE UKMET IS A FAIR MEDIAN FORECAST IN THE WEST AND INTO THE EASTERN DOMAIN. WILL SIDE WITH A COMBINATION SOLUTION MESHING THE MODELS FOR THE FORECAST TODAY. EASTERN DOMAIN...THE WEAK RIDGING WILL BE REPLACED BY OVERALL TROUGH OVER THE STATE BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE PRECIPITATION WILL REMAIN MAINLY SOUTH OF THE MAINLAND. ONLY MOUNTAIN SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE THROUGH THE PERIOD. GEO-HEIGHTS WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER SOUTH CENTRAL FOR A COOLER OVERALL ATMOSPHERE THROUGH THE PERIOD. CONTINUED PRETTY QUIET THROUGH THE FIRST 84 HOURS. WESTERN DOMAIN...THE OLD TYPHOON WILL WEAKEN AS IT CROSSES THE BERING AND MOVES INTO THE GULF OF ALASKA BY 84 HOURS. STRONGEST WINDS SHOULD REMAIN IN THE FAR WEST BEHIND THE SYSTEM AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN CHAIN. HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES FALL PRETTY GOOD BEHIND THE THE UPPER SYSTEM TOWARDS THE END OF THE PERIOD A MUCH COOLER AIRMASS WILL BE IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. .AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...NONE MARINE...GALE 12B 13AB FIRE WEATHER...NONE PROTON SEP 04
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong storm in the Bering Sea created a long fetch with high wind. This produced a coastal storm surge resulting in minor coastal flooding along the Kuskokwim Delta.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, September 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5425095.